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OneDrive tried to write-back all cloud files and stuffed my laptop
Hi Folks,
9,400 posts on OneDrive so I feel a bit better that I'm not the only one fighting it. I discover unpredicted behaviour after OD makes some decision: it needs a full manual from MS! Something simple like 'you set this option, OD does this ...'
What I want to acheive is real-time cloud backup using OD.
Winver 10 Pro 22H2 19045.4170
==The headline problem
My P:\Personal partition is over-filled with reserved space OneDrive files that already exist as the original file on the same partition. How do I delete all these phantom files? Chkdsk can't tell. There's no hardware error. CloneSpy can't find files that are not duplicates. OneDrive created the problem: can it be told to undo the sync errors?
==History
I have Family MS365 Premium 1TB OneDrive, shared but on my account. My replacement laptop has the required Outlook account, but I bought the MS365 on the previous laptop with a Gmail. On Family shares I have simply logged on to their machines with my gmail MS account, downloaded and installed Office 365, picked OD backup folders and it's all worked well. My personal laptop was stuck on 5Gb space for all storage, Outlook + OD. I fixed this by sending my Outlook self an invitation to use my Family MS365 share.
I'm file-centric in organisation and my personal files are all on a P: partition. Things went badly wrong when I set OD to backup documents, pictures, video, music. I think MS assumes everyone has everything under their User Profile, and OD set about *moving* everything into a OneDrive special folder under my Profile on C:, whilst flattening the folder structure arranged by year. After it ran out of space backing up a 1Tb drive onto a 150Gb partition on the same disk, the laptop ground to a halt. Eventually, I did a Windows Repair install. This mostly recovered the laptop, in that context right-click file operations wouldn't take 20 mins each; but with P: brimmed some programs don't work, like Office Updates. My User account is still on C:, not P:.
I closed the OD App and changed the folder to one on P:\ \2022\OneDrive, and checked 'Keep on this device' as the OD root setting. P: contains the files I want to backup with OD. OD has created a folder 'Recovered' for some of the files that are not backed up. Win Explorer and Ace Utilities tell me that 250Gb P: is 99.9% full.
OD reports 1700 files with sync. issues, but this is a large under-estimation as I also back up my phone to OD. On P: I they are all reserved space because I can find a copy on my laptop or phone that will open. I've just checked a random few. How do I delete the fake files from the MFT?
Thanks in advance,
Mike